Quotes By Famke Janssen

I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.

I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.

Netflix is something I watch.

When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.

You don't ever know with films. You just hope for the best, but sometimes it's a bit of a crapshoot.

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.

The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.

I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.

I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.

I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.

We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

I've lived in New York for a really long time.

I don't watch TV.

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.

Disneyland is supposed to be the happiest place on Earth and I have to say when I'm riding around in that crazy Space Mountain ride I'm happy.

I am attracted to the dark side of life!

I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.

As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way.